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From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@Shaw.ca>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Random "child_info_fork::abort:"
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 14:35:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <39fb6e0e-547d-40b5-56ea-3af726fdc56a@Shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47104d9b-934f-b873-64eb-7f1572f46de1@cs.umass.edu>

On 2016-10-13 06:31, Eliot Moss wrote:
> On 10/13/2016 8:00 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>> On 13/10/2016 09:11, Evgeny Grin wrote:
>>> MS is pushing us to "Ubuntu on Windows"?
>> Interesting. Are we back to the old tactics ?
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code
> I don't see the motivation.  We still buy Windows.
> Do you think they'll charge extra for UoW?

Nope - they always need a POSIX subsystem available in some form
in order to satisy US Fed government requirements for mandatory
POSIX compatibility on all systems contract bids, even if few
will ever use that capability on their desktops or servers.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-13 13:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-12  5:59 Evgeny Grin
2016-10-12  8:36 ` Brian Inglis
2016-10-12 12:00   ` Evgeny Grin
2016-10-13  4:43     ` Evgeny Grin
2016-10-13 12:00       ` Evgeny Grin
2016-10-13 12:31         ` Marco Atzeri
2016-10-13 13:12           ` Eliot Moss
2016-10-13 14:35             ` Brian Inglis [this message]
2016-10-13 16:29         ` Evgeny Grin
2016-10-13 17:56           ` Evgeny Grin
2016-10-13 21:05             ` Evgeny Grin
2016-10-15 10:28               ` Tony Kelman
2016-10-16  0:08                 ` Evgeny Grin

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